On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:32:32PM +0000, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > > For example, I don't think you want it to be on the release update > > channel,... wouldn't that cause the firefox update logic to automatically > > clobber your build with the next automatic update? which resulting > > Firefox then won't work--the whole reason why we're doing our own builds. > > Good point - I was just copying what was given via about:buildconfig > > In my case, this wouldn't matter as we lock the preferences > "app.update.auto" and "app.update.enabled" to false to prevent automatic > updates. > > However, I don't know what a reasonable setting of > 'enable-update-channel' should be instead? No, I don't know either. I left out that setting from my mozconfig, and when I fire up the new binary and choose "about firefox" it shows "default" update channel. Dunno what that means. I'll hafta do some snooping around on mozilla.org, I recall seeing a discussion of that there (somewhere) in the last year or two. I seem to recall (vaguely) that there's also a file somewhere in the firefox data that contains a setting for that that should be changeable. > > > [later...] Ah, it seems to have completed a build, now. > > > > next dumb question: I recall from when I've built it (years) in the > > past that there's a tool, somewhere, for creating an installable .tgz > > file, like the one we can download from mozilla. so far I haven't > > tripped over it in 18.0.1, do you happen to know what that is? > > Once 'make -f client.mk' has completed OK, cd to the > obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu subdirectory and run 'make package' and it will > create a bzip2'd tar archive in the dist subdirectory Oh, good, thanks! I've got it installed and so far (about 5 mins) it seems to be working fine. thanks for putting up with my ignorance and long list of whines! :) Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------